The Power Nap is over. The participants stride briskly back into the Chewonki boat shop, put on their respirators, and return to work. For two weeks now, they’ve used glue and fiberglass to join okoume plywood pieces into hand-crafted kayaks, 17’ 8” long and with a beam of a bit over 23”. All six vessels […]
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We finished up the session of camp earlier this week, and it has been absolutely wonderful to catch up with all the photos and stories from the different groups. We wanted to share a couple of our favorites with the whole community. Maybe it will inspire you to start planning your next wild adventure! Enjoy!
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Morning pea-picking is good work. The farmers move down rows of emerald tendrils “dripping with peas,” as Assistant Farm Manager Hilary Crowell puts it, pinching off round, ripe pods and dropping them into buckets. With this bumper crop, harvesting goes quickly. And there are plenty of sweet snap peas for snacking. “Take a few for
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Some of the campers and counselors at Camp Chewonki for Boys tested out the solar ovens this week and produced the ultimate expression of fine-solar-dining: the fabled solar chocolate-chip cookie. Powered completely by the sun, these parabolic solar reflectors (along with some handily-repurposed pizza boxes, sticks and tape) toasted up these treats in just a
Summer keeps rolling along! Here’s what some of our summer leaders told us were highlights of their week: “What was the highlight of this week?” Jen Adams, Wilderness Trips Coordinator: “I was part of a covert mission to deliver ice cream by canoe to the Puffins [Chewonki’s youngest campers] camping on Pinky Point. We took
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July 4, Chewonki Campfire Circle. Six Camp Boys, two counselors, and a counselor-in-training spent the morning at Campfire Circle, whittling, building small campfires, concocting “pitch glue,” and fortifying the forest shelters they’d designed and built. Parades, carnivals, and crowded beaches seemed a world away. This is Chewonki Woodcraft, and please don’t make the mistake of confusing
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